Green v. Taylor, Bastrop & Houston Railway Co.

HENRY, Associate Justice.

Appellant brought this suit to recover damages. His petition charged that the damages were caused by the unskillful construction of defendant’s railroad by reason of which the surface water, which had previously flowed away from his land, was thrown back upon it, overflowing about 35 acres of cultivated laud and about 15 acres of pasture land at several different dates during the years 1887, 1888, and-1889, for several days continuously in each instance; that such overflows will continue so long as the railroad is left in its present condition, and have diminished the…